The officer will enter a pretrial intervention program and have the charges dropped upon completion.
Project Freedom in Robbinsville. ROBBINSVILLE — A Robbinsville police officer who attacked a woman in a wheelchair and her child while he was suffering from a psychological disorder will resign from his job, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said today.
Charges against Sgt. Mark Lee, 45, will be dropped after he successfully completes a three-year pretrial intervention program. As a condition of admission to the program Lee must forfeit his police job, said Casey DeBlasio, spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office.
“He didn’t intend anything that occurred that day,” said Lee’s attorney, Charles Sciarra. “He feels awful for the people that are involved.”
Lee allegedly broke into an apartment at Project Freedom, an independent living facility for people with disabilities, and assaulted the woman, knocking her out of her wheelchair.
The prosecutor's office has described Lee's condition as calcium deposits on his brain.
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